Trade Port

Allows importing, exporting, and storage of commodity resources or freight. Larger storage lots allow for ten times the capacity of the trade depot. Rail and cargo ship connections allow import and export via rail or water. Requires power and water to function.

Think ahead about where you wish to place your trade port. You can add modules to let it trade on the sea, or on the rails, or both, but your trade port has to be close enough to take advantage. If you have both rails and the sea, you can extend your tracks with heavy rails to bring the trains closer to the sea to take advantage of both modules. If that's not feasible, you can still have multiple trade ports if you can afford it. Either way, more goods are shipped by train or by ship than they are by trucks along the highway, which leads to bigger profits for you.

Take care, though, when using this building to import resources. The volumes of resources traded are *huge* and will casually burn through $200,000, leaving you with a giant pile of alloy, for example, and little cash to support your city...

Utility costs

Modules

Heavy Rail Tracks

Extends the rail to allow your connection between your trade port and all rail-connected cities in the region, if you also add a freight rail terminal module.

Cost: $20/section

No upkeep

Trade Port Sign

Decorative

Cost: $200

No upkeep

Delivery Truck Garage

Adds 1 delivery truck to deliver goods faster

Maximum of 12 per trade oort

Cost: $3,000

Upkeep: $50/hr

Freight Rail Terminal

Allows your trade port to trade resources among all rail-connected cities in the region. Able to import and export a large amount of a single resource at a time every 6 hours.

Cost: $70,000

Upkeep: $400

Cargo Ship Dock

Allows your trade port to trade resources among all sea-connected cities in the region. Able to import and export a large amount of a single resource every 3 hours.

Cost: $100,000

Upkeep: $400

Storage Lot

Adds capacity for goods based on the type of lot you plop; see below

Maximum of 6 total storage lots per trade port

Cost: $20,000

Upkeep: $150/hr

Note

Storage lots for finished goods are unavailable until you're able to produce the good in question through specific buildings in the mining, drilling, or electronics specialization or require them to manufacture a finished good.</div>

Types of Storage Lots

Both the trade depot and the trade port lot capacities are listed in the following table for comparison.